Category Archives: Regulation
Jan. 1 Emissions Reporting Deadline Draws Pundits Out of Wordwork
With large emitters scheduled to begin collecting their emissions data Jan. 1, companies are gearing up to ensure their compliance. But that hasn’t stopped critics from ramping up their rhetoric. On Sept. 22, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would require about 10,000 facilities that emit about 85 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gases to [...]
Most pragmatic approach to reducing CO2: ‘Cap and Trade’ or ‘Fee and Dividend’?
[poll id="2"] Written by Michael Ricciardi Published on December 25th, 2009 in About Climate, About Economy, About Energy Earlier this month (Dec. 7, 2009), two Op-Ed columns appeared in the New York Times–one, by Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, supporting ‘cap and trade’ strategies for reducing carbon emissions, and the other, authored by NASA’s James Hansen (head of the Goddard [...]